How to Use Email on a Domain You Already Own
No transfer required — add MX records at your current DNS host and create mailboxes in minutes.
You do not move your domain to OquMail. You keep registration where it is and publish a handful of DNS records. That is the entire technical relationship.
Quick summary
- Domain registration — at Namecheap, GoDaddy, Cloudflare or wherever you bought it
- Your website and its A or CNAME records
- Renewal and billing for the domain
- A TXT records (short text lines in DNS used for email security) that proves you own the domain
- An MX records (the settings that tell the internet where to deliver email for your domain) pointing incoming mail to OquMail
What stays where it is
- Domain registration — at Namecheap, GoDaddy, Cloudflare or wherever you bought it
- Your website and its A or CNAME records
- Renewal and billing for the domain
What you add
- A TXT records (short text lines in DNS used for email security) that proves you own the domain
- An MX records (the settings that tell the internet where to deliver email for your domain) pointing incoming mail to OquMail
- An SPF TXT records (short text lines in DNS used for email security) listing the servers allowed to send as your domain
- A DKIM TXT records (short text lines in DNS used for email security) with your domain’s signing key
- A DMARC TXT records (short text lines in DNS used for email security) telling receivers what to do with mail that fails the checks
Before you switch MX
If the domain already receives mail somewhere else — a registrar mailbox, forwarding or an old host — changing the MX record moves new mail to OquMail. Copy anything you want to keep first, and remove the old MX records rather than leaving them alongside the new one. Changes usually take effect within minutes, occasionally up to 48 hours. See how to migrate business email without downtime.
Want to see how your own domain is set up? Use the free MX lookup: it runs in your browser and stores nothing.